I’ve studied the whole Bible.
I preached it to myself—Aloud.
Every word.
If I missed so much as a comma, I re-read the whole passage again.
I’m still doing it again and again.
The Bible is clear—your pastor is a liar.
And he doesn’t even hide it.
You are a willing accomplice to his lies.
@Mohsule_ I hear some things and I have to replay to be sure an Apostle of Jesus said that?, I really don't understand why a person will intentionally work to make his own job difficult
@_Fiyinfoluwa_E@AdaOlisa_ME If you can stay in that church to hear the word and receive prayers, he is annointed enough to counsel you. Find another pastor if you disagree.
Problem is you think marital problems are special, and that's exactly the cause of the marital problems.
@doctrLakes She is very wrong, careless even, the bible is enough, and pastors are supposed to be the experts on biblical marriage.
Pray tell, is there a special annointing for marriage counseling? And the person who issues the certificate for counseling, where did he learn it?
So hear this:
In the gospels there are multiple events recorded where Jesus publicly identifies with notable sinners.
And there is something consistent across board.
Matthew was a tax collector.
To be a tax collector for the Roman Government in Jesus’s Israel you’d have to possess a very weak moral code.
Tax collectors were called publicans and were seen as among the worst of sinners.
Jesus went to Matthew’s stand and called him from there.
Matthew in response threw a party and invited his fellow publicans, Jesus went to that party too.
Zacchaeus was not just a publican, he was the kind of Publican that someone like Matthew would want to become like.
He was very established in fraud and he also knew how to multiply gains gotten from fraud that he made for himself so much wealth so even if he was to be convicted and asked to return all he stole, he would still have at least four times that value to live on.
He was the kind of sinner that other people knew was a sinner and thanked God that they were not sinners like him.
Jesus publicly announced to the hearing of others that he was going to follow this sinner home.
The third person I want to mention wasn’t even named.
The only description we have about her is “the woman in the city, which was a sinner”.
She was a notable sinner in the city.
Come to think about it. Many sinners today are closet sinners so nobody really knows who they really are or what they do, but a sinner that the city knows is no small sinner.
She approached Jesus in gratitude, washing his feet with her hair and anointing his feet with ointment.
Jesus publicly identified with sinners, but one consistent thing across the board was that these people did not retain their previous reputation as sinners.
Matthew and Zacchaeus weren’t known to go back to defraud people.
Matthew followed Jesus until the death and we have his account of Jesus’s life and ministry.
Zacchaeus was the one who volunteered to restitute his sins.
He turned his back on his sins.
The woman in the city who was a sinner, was grateful for her forgiven sins. The gratitude is what is shown in the washing and kissing of the feet of Jesus.
The public sinners were no longer publicly known to be sinners.
Could they have had personal occasional struggles after that?
Of course, that’s not unexpected, but one thing is consistent, the public sinners were no longer publicly known to be sinners.
If a public sinner has encountered Jesus truly the first drastic thing that will happen is they will distance themselves publicly from their sinful life.
We have had instances where former worldly celebrities have been said to give their lives to Christ.
What we mostly see is that they immediately begin to publicly do ministry. You can question that model, but what I have never seen is what I’m seeing today.
There’s only one thing that seems obvious to me.
If someone is said to have met Jesus and we don’t see the same thing in other people who have met Jesus then it means they have not met Jesus.
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today and forever.
And this, little children, is why you should pay attention in your "introduction to logic classes"
Pop quiz: how many logical fallacies can you identify?
@Row_Haastrup What does she mean by "if they are not annointed for it"? There's a special annointing for marriage counseling?
And the certificate, where did the person issuing it learn from?
The ungodly used to avoid church and preaching because such atmospheres convicted them of sin and reminded hearts that there was a consequence for rejecting God's loving grace.
But Unbelievers today love the church because it is cool and fashionable.
They love gospel music because it is enjoyable and trendy.
They love preaching because it is humorous and fun.
They love prayer because it serves as a good mask, giving others a favourable impression of them.
They also seem to like Jesus, although they don't believe He must be worshipped or obeyed.
Some consider these changes as progress in terms of reaching the lost.
I respectfully do not think so.
Some pleasures are not from Satan.
Some sufferings are not from God.
There is no value in suffering for your foolish decisions or your unbelief in God's provision to deliver you from afflictions.
Suffer gallantly for the name of Christ but take advantage of every provision in God to experience His peace and wholeness.
God has no delight in your pain, and He isn't threatened by your pleasure either.
Ultimately, He wants you to conform to His image while experiencing His love and interventions through every season of this broken world.
@israel_igboze@GroveRKifasi This is too incoherent, calm down and speak clearly. Nobody in this "God kills" argument has said God is responsible for all death, because thats a clearly unscriptural position.
The question is does/can God kill (according to the Bible)?
Stop running here and there
@_OKJ__ Correction: you tried to rage bait Christians with a fictional dialogue fine-tuned to your own biases. You are an intellectual fraud and the only dilemma is your inability to smell your own bumbum
@_OKJ__ Rage baiting to make money. You created a fake conversation with one of the biggest Christian leaders to prove that his religion is a fraud, but somehow you don't see the fraud in the mirror, right in front of you 😂
Dundee!
@_OKJ__@tradaxd You
Rage baiting to make money. You created a fake conversation with one of the biggest Christian leaders to prove that his religion is a fraud, but somehow you don't see the fraud in the mirror, right in front of you 😂
Dundee!